BRUNSWICK, GA. | The Historic Preservation Fund has awarded $6,000 in federal funds to Brunswick for signs at the Wright Square burial ground on the former Glynn Middle School property, a Georgia Historic Preservation Division release said.

Once the school was torn down last year, City Manager Bill Weeks and Fred Cook, both archeologists, did a study that found evidence of 37 graves on the southwest corner of the school grounds, some of which had been beneath the cafeteria.

Once the grave locations were recorded, earth was piled back over them.

The city intended to place a memorial on the site, which is now marked by a single small sign.

The grant money, which is part of $36,076 awarded to various projects, will pay for interpretive and educational signs at the burial ground. The city gave the northern Wright Square to the county school board in the 1950s for the construction of the middle school but has gotten it back through a land swap and will restore it to a park.